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Manufacturing Manager
Food Manufacturing
County Durham
£70,000 - £72,000
There are Manufacturing Manager roles where the operation is already polished and your job is to keep it that way.
This isn’t one of them.
This is a large, fast-paced food manufacturing site entering a significant period of change.
Investment is coming, new talent is joining the business and expectations around performance, leadership and accountability are increasing.
The opportunity is to help shape what happens next.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Site Lead, you’ll take responsibility for a sizeable production operation, leading seven direct reports and a wider team across multiple manufacturing and packing lines.
You’ll own performance across safety, food quality, service, cost and efficiency. That means improving labour and material control, reducing waste, increasing machine performance and ensuring the production plan is delivered consistently.
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But the numbers are only part of it.
The business needs someone who can develop its Shift Managers, raise expectations and create a genuine high-performance culture. You’ll need to make KPIs meaningful on the factory floor, tackle recurring problems at their root cause and ensure people understand what is expected of them and why it matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership and Development: Develop Shift Managers, raise expectations and create a high-performance culture.
- Performance Management: Improve labor and material control, reduce waste, increase machine performance, and ensure consistent delivery of the production plan.
- KPI Implementation: Make KPIs meaningful on the factory floor and ensure people understand their importance.
- Problem Solving: Tackle recurring problems at their root cause.
- Operational Decisions: Have the authority to make operational decisions and improve the structure, capability, and culture within manufacturing.
- Collaboration: Work with different departments to ensure more effective collaboration.
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Requirements
- Significant leadership experience from a fast-paced food manufacturing environment, ideally within a complex, high-volume operation.
- Comfortable reviewing costs and performance data, walking the factory floor, and having direct conversations when standards aren’t where they need to be.
Why This Opportunity?
This will suit someone who wants more than responsibility for today’s production plan. It’s an opportunity to join during a genuine period of investment and help build a stronger, more capable manufacturing operation for the future.
If that sounds like the type of challenge you’re ready for, apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
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